fivefold
"fivefold" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fivefold” is uncommon English (frequency #65,118 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,118
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Five times as much or as many.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fivefold |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fivefold” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fivefold is uncommon English at frequency #65,118 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fivefold in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English fiffold, from Old English fīffeald. Equivalent to five + -fold. The correct English form is fivefold, spelled F-I-V-E-F-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1Five times as much or as many.
- 2In a group or series of five; consisting of five together as one; quintuple.
Etymology
From Middle English fiffold, from Old English fīffeald. Equivalent to five + -fold.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fivefold”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-I-V-E-F-O-L-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.